Three asylum seeker boats arrive at Christmas Island

THREE more asylum boats have arrived at Christmas Island in the hours following federal parliament's failure to agree on a way of halting the flow of boatpeople to Australia.

One boat carrying 44 asylum-seekers, believed to be from Sri Lanka, was intercepted by officials from Border Protection Command late last night and was escorted into Christmas Island's Flying Fish Cove.

Within hours another boat arrived off the island and was this morning escorted by the navy into Flying Fish Cove. Aboard were about 100 men, believed to be from Afghanistan.

Later this morning, authorities said they were preparing to intercept a third boat about 30 nautical miles from Christmas Island.

The new boat arrivals came as federal parliament broke up for its winter break with no solution to the deadlock over asylum-seeker policy.

They also follow the interception on Wednesday night of a boat carrying 93 Sri Lankan men, woman and children.

They arrived as 130 survivors from the vessel which sank north of Christmas Island on Wednesday were also taken ashore.

On Sunday, another boat from Sri Lanka arrived carrying 60 people while last week the island received 110 survivors from the boat which capsized last week in the seas between Christmas Island and Indonesia.